Show:
Basic Elements
Literary Devices
Plot
Genres
100
One of the people or animals in a story.
What is a character?
100
The message about life or human nature that is "hidden" in the story that the writer tells.
What is Theme?
100
Following a plan the action that makes up a story.
What is Plot Line?
100

The performed version of a written text in front of an audience. Its written text contains dialogues, and stage directions

What is Drama?

200
The person or force that works against the hero/main character in the story.
What is the Antagonist?
200
The feeling a piece of literature creates in a reader.
What is Mood?
200
This introduces characters and settings while supplying background and setting the tone.
What is Exposition?
200

A form of writing which employs rhyme and rythm.

what is a poem?

300
The main character in a story, often a good or heroic type.
What is the Protagonist?
300
The lesson a story teaches.
What is Moral?
300
This introduces complications (problems) which build suspense and is when the plot "thickens."
What is Rising Action?
300

A narrative piece of literary work often found in novels, textbooks and newspaper articles.

what is prose?

400
The place and time frame in which a story takes place.
What is the Setting?
400
The attitude or feeling that comes across in a piece of literature.
What is Tone?
400
This is the turning point of the story and the moment when the suspense reaches its peak which results in a change for the main character. This sometimes occurs at the end of the story, without being followed by the falling action.
What is the Climax?
400

what type of genre are short stories?

what is prose?

500
The action that makes up the story, following a plan called the plot line.
What is the Plot?
500

The repeating of a particular letter or sound at the beginning of three or more words.

What is alliteration

500
This occurs after the climax of the story, resolves conflict and ties up loose ends of the story.
What is the Falling Action/Resolution?
500

aa,bb,cc or ababa are examples of this...

what is a rhyme scheme or pattern?